About

Brown Falconer is a local Adelaide based, multidisciplinary design practice. Our diverse team of 36 staff bring a balance of big picture, creative and lateral thinking, aligned with real market experience and proven delivery skills. Brown Falconer is one of the longest-standing architectural practices in South Australia, providing quality service to our clients for the past 72 years.

Boasting a national portfolio, our team offers architecture, interior design and building services engineering expertise across a range of development sectors.

As a practice, Brown Falconer prides itself on thorough and well coordinated multi disciplinary responses to each commission. We focus on the needs and relationships of clients and on a culture of attentiveness, responsiveness and delivery.

With 36 people and 72 years of experience our portfolio is deep and it is this cross pollination of ideas from all kinds of experiences which leads to great outcomes.

Alwyndor Aged Care

Alwyndor Aged Care

Alwyndor was a reasonably ‘typical’ aged care and retirement living site with a mix of high and low care places and ILU’s around a heritage garden and in need of refurbishment.

‘Typical’ aspirations existed to develop apartment style ILU’s and to embed community services into a redeveloped aged care core. Rather than simply respond to a design competition based on this aspiration, Brown Falconer proposed and structured a Master Plan, including market research and financial modelling to establish the optimum development for the site. This led to some surprising outcomes.

The market research for demand and sales demonstrated that the apartment notion simply did not work for the actual local demographic, and led to Alwyndor reconsidering their current use of building stock with regard to resident types and therefore bond access.

The design solution included demolition of a relatively recent nursing home building, and construction of a contemporary two storey ageing in place facility which better suits residents’ needs and provides better return from bonds.